Sentanta Skint

[richard (mossley)]

BBC NEWS | Business | Setanta in talks on sport rights

[Master]

Sounds like bad news. Setanta is my number 1 because of the boxing. As long as they have that then I will stay with them even if they lose the football.

[Big Dick Whittington]

Setanta is better than sky sports right now I hope they can get over the blip I think the all round coverage is brillant .


they've only got the Saturday games that start at 5 30 from now on .

Hope they stick in there if only for Bunce's boxing hour ,the cult tv show of boxing .

[Master]

It may have started already sky have the Berto v Urango fight.

[Britkid]

It may have started already sky have the Berto v Urango fight.

I think it has, I had the day off, and turned on the TV this morning, only to find infomercials, where last nights and the weekends re-runs would normally be shown. I remember the same thing happening to that channel on 427, that used to show old SKY fights.

[Drago]

oh dear

i have setanta cos get with virgin+ but would of subscribed to them if was with sky anyway solely for the boxing

hope they keep gettin the fights

[rowlesy]

It's not a suprise really, the football coverage is shocking. And as thats what they are pushing as the reason for people to subscribe, then its no shock they are going under.

If they advertised as just a boxing channel, which is what they are best at, they would still go under because of the large majority of boxing viewers who prefer to watch on streams rather than physically pay a TV channel to show it.

They are in a lose-lose situation I'm afraid.

[Master]

I prefer to watch it on TV and record it on my VHS tapes. I must be a dinosaur.

[robinswe01]

I hope they don't go under. They are much better than sky.
They have some good fights in the near future. They have Haye's next 3 fight and have a deal with Top rank so they should have cotto's next fight.
I'm not sure how long this deal lasts though.

[rowlesy]

The trouble is the football side of it is shockingly bad, and thats why they are in so much shit financially. They've lost the Monday night games and so only have the Saturday evening kick-off, so there's not much point in having Setanta now for football. Their boxing coverage is excellent, but thats not enough unfortunately.

[Master]

Boxing is my primary interest, football is second. Setanta is cheaper than Sky so that is another bonus. The Germain boxing is poor but the Top Rank fights are better.

[The Rela]

June 21st is when I'm getting rid of Setanta.

Cotto fight is coming up, then Haye, there's some ABA stuff and the heavyweight fight.

After that, £15 a month is looking bad value.

[HattonTheHammer]

setanta simply cannot compete with sky when it comes to premier league rights and im pretty sure thats a good 70-80% alone of their profiting figures.

Without at least 1 game a week they`ll struggle to even remain in existence and we`ll have to get used to shitty sky coverage and on the odd ITV card

[J_C]

Damn Setanta arent getting much luck are they. Its not like they have THAT many fights on anyway, Valuev called off in May now the Haye fight in June. Do they even have any pro bouts lined up bar Cotto now?

[Kirkland Laing]

setanta simply cannot compete with sky when it comes to premier league rights and im pretty sure thats a good 70-80% alone of their profiting figures.

Without at least 1 game a week they`ll struggle to even remain in existence and we`ll have to get used to shitty sky coverage and on the odd ITV card

ITV are pulling out of boxing too when their current contract with Hennessy ends. Setanta will do well to survive another twelve months, they're going to have to totally rewrite their business model. Pretty soon boxing will be Friday night domestic stuff on Sky and PPV for anything involving a Brit at world level.